NDNJ's studio blog

  common themes of  similar  means: WAR  'Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted' said Banksy. My blog, which all of you have kindly chosen to come by, explores the intersection between literature, science, culture and art, and how different aspects of our man-crafted world intermingle in both intended and naturalistic mannerisms. War for instance, a man-made construct is spoken about in the art of the very storyteller I quoted in the opening of this piece . I wonder how other forms of art explore the same. And so here's how. For this post, I have examined how war and its impact on children has been portrayed in a literary source and a non-literary source. ‘Persepolis’ by Marjane Satrapi published in 2000, is a graphic novel depicting her tumultuous journey, growing up in war-torn Iran with the extremism of the Islamic Revolution on one end and the Iran-Iraq war on the other. Through Marji's eyes, readers witness the disruption of a normal ...

there is   Power, Fear… and Respect? ‘Nandini, your head is like a crazy ball!’ The words of my very critical art professor for whom I have not only utmost respect but even more fear, the shivering kind, the kind that makes my toes tingle and my chest hollow. Interesting, the effect a 4 foot 10, skinny, 60-something-year-old lady wearing an organic block printed suit and mauve lipstick has on me. Her appearance is simple, but not simple as in boring, simple as in clear, almost as clear as her voice when she critiques or even appreciates my work, almost as clear as the way her mouth manages to produce the most well-spoken words. More often than not, I compare the way one speaks to the fillet of a fish (although my vegetarianism has no bearing on this analogy), cleanly pronounced words are like a perfectly done pink salmon while the garbled ones are like what you find inside of sloppy tins of sardines. Somehow, my professor speaks as an experienced poissonier cuts his fish. On the da...